Collecting SMART Disk Metrics from Ceph with OpenTelemetry

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🔔🔔🔔 SUBSCRIBE to get more great content 🔔🔔🔔 https://www.youtube.com/c/parisnakitakejser?sub_confirmation=1 Learn how to collect detailed SMART disk metrics from your Ceph nodes and send them to a remote observability platform using OpenTelemetry. In this video, I walk through the entire setup: installing and configuring the smartctl-exporter, exposing local disk health metrics, and using the OpenTelemetry Collector to securely forward all SMART data (temperature, wear-level, reallocated sectors, health status, and more) to your central monitoring stack. You’ll see how to: • Install and configure smartctl-exporter on Ceph nodes • Expose SMART metrics in a reliable and lightweight way • Configure an OpenTelemetry Collector to scrape and forward metrics • Send data to a remote observability backend • Validate and visualize disk health for preventive maintenance • Monitor OS-level and Ceph-specific disks across your cluster Whether you're running Ceph in a homelab, on-prem, or production environments, this guide helps you gain full visibility into disk health, before failures happen. 🎯 Resources can be found on GitHub 🌟: https://github.com/parisnakitakejser/PnkCore/blob/main/ceph/observability/collecting-smart-disk-metrics-from-ceph-with-opentelemetry/README.md 🌟 Community 🌟 GitHub: https://github.com/parisnakitakejser/PnkCore Mediun: https://pnk.sh